IMO, The US has crumbling infrastructure, corrupt government, dangerous cities, and a lot of homelessness, among so many other problems. Hell, millions of people in the US don’t even have power right now.

What’s the difference?

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      4 months ago

      The US usually ranks 25-50 on world corruption indices. Third world countries rank 100-200.

      That would mean that the US is more corrupt. I’m pretty sure that’s not what you meant, so I’m just adding this to help.

      I don’t know if it’s a language thing or a regional thing (or just a regular mistake), but “rank” usually means that 1 is the most, 2 is the second most, and 100th would be less corrupt than 1, 2, etc.

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          4 months ago

          You’re right, they’ve ordered it that way, but they’ve specified that their scale is…

          [scored] on a scale of 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean)

          So you weren’t wrong about what you read.

          But without that context there, being “in the top ten of a corruption ranking” would usually mean the country is very corrupt, haha